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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School Virtual Tour This exhibition explores representations of Native Americans in the popular imagination through a selection of advertising trade cards, currency, illustrations, and sculpture from Baker Library Special... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Lawrence noted years ago, is "the vehicle by which a chunk of reality is brought into the classroom to be worked over by the class and the instructor." Most cases require students to assume the role of the protagonist and to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
NFL, sported an acclaimed broadcast unit, and had affiliates in virtually all important U.S. markets. Yet acquisition of these NFL rights directly enabled the expansion of Fox, then a minor broadcaster, into the media behemoth of today.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
2011, she was selected to head the IMF. Since 2011, Lagarde built the foundation for the IMF’s adaptation to the realities of the 21st century. By 2017, shortly after Lagarde began her second term as the managing director of the IMF, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
should make. The gains we have made on gender are fragile and must be vigilantly monitored and reinforced. The 50th anniversary of the African American Student Union made us recognize that we have even more work to do on advancing racial inclusion. This View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
communities in the United States and the world are experiencing very different realities as the year draws to a close. While you might have an idea you believe in, I would err on the side of humility and test if and where your ideas might... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
of speakers about both the promise and the realities of today's information revolution. Not surprisingly, in view of the latest wave of technological change, the conference devoted three entire sessions to the Internet. The Internet and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
certainly opening, and it is a global window. All advanced economies, even those with universal insurance, are starting to confront the reality that the healthcare system is not aligned to drive value for the patient, or the health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
have to make sure you are a museum with a shop, not a shop with a bunch of paintings around it" — the reality is that the more dollars a museum brings in, the more it is able to spend on its collections, buildings, and educational... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
“Supercomputing has opened up massive innovations in nuclear startups by allowing us to simulate the inside of a nuclear reactor for a mere $200 million instead of $6 billion!” As new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
bad results. If this premise seems plausible, then we should ask: Have recent declines in startup valuations and VC investments have been big enough to elicit another threat-rigidity response? Probably not—at least not yet. But when bright shiny objects—akin to today’s... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
innovative, social value-creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government, or business sectors. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value, fundamental to this definition is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
efficiently; and Watson was to translate all that into outcomes that reduced morbidity. The reality is that subtle biases or a lack of full information lead doctors to the wrong decision, which in turn leads to bad health outcomes,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
about democracy reform. We also have virtual briefings every other week with candidates and all manner of democracy experts and organizations working in the space. Second, we’re enabling members to invest their time and resources... View Details
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
the horizon with regards to data, design, and diversity. Our understanding of data impacts how we curate and interpret it. The physical and virtual spaces we design set the tone for the ways we’re able to live and build. It stands to... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
in a tenuous balance in its journey towards a sense of true belonging, equitable inclusion, and authentic representation. We still have a long way to go, but from this imperfect reality I also derive the motivation to help tackle the work... View Details
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Art Nature Business
Artifacts Collection. Virtual Tour HENRY P. HUNT Cutting Ice at Spy Pond, Arlington, Massachusetts , 1859 Oil on canvas Gift of Frederic Tudor to the Business Historical Society, 1934 HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, 1934.2 This painting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
adversity, they deserve respect as survivors. But in reality they are more than survivors: They have shown the courage, competence, and determination to be change makers. Our attitudes toward them should recognize that.” Changing... View Details